That would involve a health care safety net assuring essential health care for all, with no individual mandate and no employer mandate.
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Consequently, the poor on Medicaid face grave difficulties in obtaining timely and essential health care, and suffer worse health outcomes as a result.
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Consequently, the poor on Medicaid face grave difficulties in finding doctors and hospitals that would serve them, and in obtaining timely and essential health care.
Gingrich further supports replacing Obamacare with a complete health care safety net assuring essential health care for all, achieved with no individual mandate and no employer mandate.
The next component involves block granting and reforming Medicaid, assuring that no one would suffer without essential health care because they were too poor to buy insurance.
But Medicaid does not pay enough for the poor on the program to get timely, essential health care, particularly the sickest and those most in need of the best health care.
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Researchers estimate that in China, where smoking rates are rising quickly, a 10% increase in cigarette tax would cut consumption by 5% and increase revenues by 5%, enough to finance essential health care for a third of China's poorest 100m people.
His statement differed from comments by some other Democratic leaders, who call the public option essential for any health care legislation.
This leaves the poor on Medicaid often suffering disabling difficulties in obtaining essential, timely health care, with documented worse health outcomes as a result.
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Together we passed the largest increase in the VA's budget in more than 30 years and supported essential veterans' health care reforms to provide better access and medical care for those who serve in uniform.
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"Because I believe that it's an essential part of health care, and we're able to affect so strongly people's abilities to return to work and lead functional lives, we're an important part of the pie, " says Cheryl Resnik, assistant professor at the University of Southern California and president of the California Physical Therapy Association.
So, it's essential that we get health care costs under control by wringing out the waste in the system.
Also essential is developing consistent health care quality metrics that establish goals and standards to evaluate the level of care patients receive.
He called a health care overhaul essential for ensuring long-term economic stability while ensuring that virtually all Americans have access to health insurance.
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Cambridgeshire Health Authority was making arrangements to ensure essential workers such as GPs and health and care workers could get petrol.
But he continues to show in his 2012 budget proposal that savings in health care are essential to any balanced approach.
She listed essential elements for passing a health care bill, including making coverage more affordable for middle-class Americans, sustaining the solvency of the Medicare program for senior citizens while eliminating a gap in their prescription drug coverage, no deficit increase and holding insurance companies accountable.
This will include housing and education and health care and other essential needs.
Our Nation's health care professionals provide essential medical services to millions of Americans, yet they do not shoulder their responsibilities alone.
Then on Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that a public option is "not an essential element" of overhauling the health care system.
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On August 11, strong earthquakes in northwest Iran destroyed and damaged hundreds of villages, causing the loss of many lives, leaving thousands without electricity, water, health care and other essential services.
Yet the poor enjoyed assigned health providers to ensure they received essential care.
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Tradeoffs are an essential part of the discussion when it comes to health care reform.
In his CBO years Mr Orszag used to argue passionately that getting health-care costs under control was essential if America's vast deficits and debt were ever to be controlled.
While disseminating best practices in implementing asthma guidelines is a step in improving overall asthma health outcomes, it is essential that the asthma care plan accompanies the child where they live, learn and play.
The debate is now more clearly between two competing visions for social safety nets ensuring that essential needs for food, clothing, housing and health care are satisfied, and which vision is better both for those served by these programs, and the taxpayers.
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What health care decisions, marriage decisions, and social questions are essential for government to decide?
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Protecting Medicaid, in particular, is essential for people with special needs who do not have an employer or private health care coverage to meet their daily living needs.
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It would also include state high risk pools for the uninsured who had become too sick to buy health insurance, providing a place where they would be assured they could find essential coverage and care, with financial assistance to the extent necessary.
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But when it comes to addressing our health care challenge, we can no longer let the perfect be the enemy of the essential.
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